The Delta independent., 1887-05-10
TELEGRAPH BREYTTIES.

repaired.
A Philadelphia teller ha. absconded
with 800, 200.
The total amount of cash In the I'm
tied States Treasury is s4oO, ,105, SOC.
The hod-carriers of Chicago. to the
number of 5000, are on strike.
Muncie, Indiana, has the boss gas
well. 1t flows nearly 100000 feet per
day.
Mr.. Keep has resigned the presi-
dency OF the Chicago & Northwestern rail-
way.
Destructive tornadoes are reported
from the Northern Michigan Peninsula and
from Western Pennsylvania.
The City of Mexico is excited over
the prospect of duel between the Spanish
Minister and Senior Noreiga.
Over $4,000 men are idle in the Coke
regions of Western Pennsylvania. They
demand an advance of 12JE per cent a day.
Rain has fallen along the lines of the
Gulf & Santa Fe and the Texas Central
roads, In Texas, where 1t was sorely need
ed.
The trial Of Messenger Fotheringham
for his alleged connection with the Jim
Cummings" train robbery has begun in 81.
Louis.
The cholera is rapidly disappearing
in Chill. The total number of deaths in
Santiago de Chilli since 1t appeared was q
sT3.
Three sheep herders in New Mexico
were found dead soon after the recent
earthquake. 1t is believed they died of
fright.
The bondholders of the South Park
road have ordered the Trustees to begin
foreclosure proceedings at once and ask for
a receiver.
The steamer John Knox struck on
the reef near the harbor OF st. Johns, New
foundland, Turing dense fog and every
soul was drowned.
The American Sugar Refinery of
San Francisco has reduced wages ten per
cent, attributing their action to the Inter
State Commerce law.
Tuesdays earthquake appears to
have been central In Southern Arizona
Tucson reports an active volcano some
twenty miles from there.
BY the careless handling of shotgun
young negro boy at y ilmington North
Carolina, killed four of his companions and
wounded the fifth at one discharge.
II is understood that Germany will
surrender Schnaebeles to France with the
proyiso that he be kept away from the From
tier, where lie was making trouble.
One man was instantly killed and
two others were fatally scalded by the eS-
plosion of the boiler on the tow boat J. c.
Richer, few miles below Pittsburg.
Last week 2.6ls emigrants left
Queenstown for America. During the
month Of April the number was Ii. .S5i,
against $3.50 for the same month last year.
The French Government has decided
to suppress the performance of Lohengrin
in the future In Paris II il continues TO be
accompanied by anti-German demonstra-
tions.
Commissioner Sparks of the General
Land Office has recommended for rejection
several large private land claims In New
Mexico, aggregatlng in area nearly 10000
acres.
There was an exciting debate in the
House of Commons on the question of In
vcstigating the Times charges against the
Irish members. The Government members
oppose II.
In Fentrcss County, Tennessee, DR..
Edward Knox stripped his 14-ycar-old son,
tied him up and whipped him until he died.
The people are hunting for the brute to
lynch him.
The Gar will 20 to the Don Cossack
country on May Ia TO witness military re-
view and for other purposes. Troops are
already being placed to guard every mile of
his line of travel.
Theodore Baker was hanged At Las
Vegas for the murder of Frank Unruh in
December. lsss sand John Henry Anderson,
colored, was hanged at Socorro for killing
Alonzo Wilson in June, 1885.
Steve Brodie. who jumped from the
Brooklyn bridge, made n successful leap
from the Cincinnati suspension bridge. A
few hours previous suicide jumped from
the bridge and was drowned.
Charles Oswald. of Pittsburg, in
ft of despondency smothercd his nine-ycar-
old daughter and then cut his own throat
His other daughter, eleven years old, was
the first to find the dead bodies.
Two miles from Grand Rapids, Mich
igan, Mrs. Martin poisoned her two chill.
dren and herself because of quarrel with
her husband. The woman and one child
died and the other is in n precarious condi-
ton.
The cashier of the VIII County Ma
tional Bank at Joliet, Illinois, is now in
Canada, and the shortage in the cash is
somewhere between s15, 900 and siOO, 900. 1t
is said his father will make good the de-
ficiency.
In the trial of Fotheringham, the sus-
pected Adams Express messenger at st.
Louis, II was discovered that the Judge of
the Criminal Court had no jurisdiction and
he dismissed the case. II will be taken to
another court.
Anti-Gcrman demonstrations con-
tlnue 10 be made In various sections OF
Paris. A procession carrying banner, in
.,rthaJ EarIt,, 80 tl,., p.l 4,